Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Infinite Collection

So, while we're in the vast library of the last post, let's examine a book at random. Hmm, no dust to be seen on any volume. Someone takes good care of the infinite collection. Let's just stroll along the mezzanine level and reaching out . . . take a . . . book . . . from . . . there.

There. What do we have? Ah — Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley. Let's see the date, hmm, I always have to think a little harder to figure Roman Numerals . . . ah! 1941 I believe. Only some 70 years ago.

Not a classic, per se, but nice, with nice full-bleed illustrations by . . . Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Again, not classic, but serviceable and appropriate to the times of 1941.

Damn well nice! Well, beautiful, actually.Thanks again, Thom, for posting things like that. I never heard or seen anything by this artist, but now I just love it. I'll try to get this book.What would we do, what would we look at, without your blogs? You're doing a great cultural and visual job here.

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My name is Thom Buchanan.
I'm an artist and photographer.
People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years.
I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.